Example sentences of "have to wait a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea .
2 At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy .
3 Look , you 'll have to wait a minute while I get some gloves .
4 You want biscuits , well we 've got some biscuits , but you 'll just have to wait a minute , I ca n't unpack everything now , alright , right let's see if we can find the car Get you two in the car first I think , right then , oh , what a heavy trolley full of food Oh dear , dear , dear , will you please put your feet down Charlotte , stop me being kicked .
5 two two erm thingies two Jaffa Cakes two ba box of Jaffa Cakes and Mini Cheddars then I 'll have to wait a minute please have to wait again , and then a Coke er erm er er er erm doo doo .
6 to pick him he 's , he went out , he said I said to them , you 'll have to wait a minute my mother ai n't been very well , and I was ironing his shirt , he wo n't nothing to do
7 for ya , well we could , you 'll have to wait a minute now
8 Positive thinking will have to wait a while , but it augurs well for one of the young ringsiders who turned up in his smartest suit and said : ‘ What a disgusting fight ; I wish I 'd worn my tracksuit . ’
9 Although the plant will have the capability to make it , low-calorie frozen yogurt — that most decadent of Western desserts — may have to wait a while .
10 If indeed , as Le Figaro magazine has said , AIDS is a ‘ world war ’ , the definitive account of the war will have to wait a while .
11 ‘ I think you 'll have to wait a while before you get another chance to be captain . ’
12 It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’
13 ‘ Did n't you warn Jones that he 'd have to wait a while ? ’
14 But the next episode of this little soap opera will have to wait a while .
15 FILM star Jenny Seagrove will have to wait a while yet for her Grand Opera House debut .
16 they want somebody to go down so we could have but a bit but , mum cos he said well you 'll have to wait a while !
17 CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons .
18 Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't .
19 So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it .
20 We had an officer here wanting you to make a statement , but he 'll have to wait a couple of days .
21 Do n't think to yourself that you will have to wait a week for that garter stitch sweater — that 's the negative approach .
22 I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) .
23 He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy .
24 Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business .
25 He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side .
26 Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week .
27 Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again .
28 Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes .
29 And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point .
30 Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game .
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